History, historians and development policy

Michael Woolcock (eds) Byly, Rao, Seter, W olcock (ds) HISTORY, HISTORIANS DEVELOPMENT POLICY A necessary dialogue H ST O R Y , H ST O R IA N S & D E V E LO P M E N T P O IC Y What a wonderful book! This long-needed, impressive, and sophisticated volume is a must read for development analysts, who should know their economic history, and for economic historians, who should be motivated by modern development debates. Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard and Wisconsin, author of ‘Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind’